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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Auctions: Contemporary Art Evening and Day Auctions, June 26 and 27, 2013 @Sotheby's London

Five stock exchange images by Andreas Gursky headline Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening and Day sales in London this week; Hong Kong, Tokyo, Kuwait, and a pair from Chicago are a run of five consecutive lots in the evening auction. With the help of their big ticket estimates, there's quite a bit of photo value on the line. Overall, there are a total of 43 photography lots available across the two sales, with a Total High Estimate of £5503000.

Here's the statistical breakdown:

Total Low Lots (high estimate up to and including £5000): 0Total Low Estimate (sum of high estimates of Low lots): NA

The top lot by High estimate is lot 28, Andreas Gursky, Chicago Board of Trade, 1997, at £700000-900000. (Image at right, top, via Sotheby's.)

Here is a list of the photographers who are represented by more than one lot in the two sales (with the number of lots in parentheses):
Andreas Gursky (7)
Richard Prince (4)Candida Höfer (3) Thomas Struth (3)
Gabriel Orozco (2)
Wolfgang Tillmans (2)